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Post & thread about city-wide open data 👇@LDN_data London Datastore is 9 today 🎂 - London's open data-sharing portal where anyone can access data relating to the capital - here's a quick recap of open data in London, driven by @LDN_gov City Hall medium.com/@SmartLondon/l…

Launched in January 2010​, the Datastore originally hosted some 200 datasets - now it has over 800 📈, with over 50k/month users from government, business, media, academia & civil society.

We believe London has a fine history of publishing open data & we think more can be done to exploit the value of wider ‘city data’. So the Datastore started focusing on wider sets of data, from boroughs & pvt data, placing a greater emphasis on city-wide collaboration.

1\n #Amazon has done much more for building and deploying #IoT devices in a secure and robust manner than any other ecosystem organization. Their focus? Help build and deploy more connected devices. If you are building connected devices, this summary report is for you:

2\n Both their arms #Alexa and #AWS offer solutions at both the ends: the device (h/w and s/w dev kits) and the cloud. So how does it help you, the device maker? Let's find out. Every tweet below is an Amazon solution. Let's start with Alexa first.

3\n Control via #Alexa 1: If you've built a cloud connected device, use the Alexa SmartHome Skill to link it to Alexa. Then users can asks Alexa to ctrl your device, which goes to Alexa cloud, then to your skill, then your cloud and finally to your device. developer.amazon.com/docs/smarthome…

Hayward poses key qs for us in NI in these precarious times - neither of which glean clear answer: (1) what opportunities does #Brexit offer NI? (2) what cost is British Govt prepared to incur for #Brexit - when polls indicate maj GB indifference to hard border,collapse of peace?

Personal opinion incoming:
I’ve previously said I think #Brexit is a moral, ethical, economic, social, & cultural crisis. I generally refrain from nailing my political colours to the post publicly, but the seriousness of the negative impacts of this ‘project’ are exceptional...